Notebook

Speeding persists on Armistead

ODESSA -- Lead-foot drivers have caused homeowners along Armistead Lane to consider more ways to control speeding.

Hillsborough sheriff's deputies will spend the next couple of weeks writing tickets in the neighborhood. If that doesn't work, residents will ask the county to add two more speed humps on the road, which already has four.

"Based on what I've seen, there is a speeding problem out there," said Jerry Dabkowski, a Hillsborough County hearing officer appointed to investigate the problem.

Dabkowski said he would arrange to have deputies patrol the street for two weeks. But if the residents decide they still want two more speed humps, one would be placed between the existing first and second speed hump. The other would be between the third and fourth hump.

While the majority of homeowners who attended the public hearing at Walker Middle School were in favor of more speed humps, some were strongly against them, saying they could delay fire and medical vehicles.

"One of the big issues . . . is that speed humps cause EMS delays for residents on the very southern end of Armistead (Lane)," Dabkowski said.